Improvement in coin-packages



Patented ay 27 lllllll IIb/EINE@ UNITED STATES PATENT OEETeE.

WILLIAM V. BRIGHAM, OF NEWTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO CARTER, RICE & OO., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROV-EMENT IN COIN-PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,788, dated May 27, 1879; application flled April 12, 1879.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, XVM. V. BRIGHAM, of Newton, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Coin-Packages, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved coinpackage wherein all the coins of the package are so fully covered or wrapped that they cannot be touched by the hand, yetthe entire edge of each coin is distinctly and clearly visible, which enables a judge of good and spurious coin to readily and quickly detect bad coin, and see and count each coin as easily as if not wrapped.

In banking and other establishments it is customary to wrap up gold, silver, and other as to form to be adapted to worn or bent coin,`

and are liable to' become detached.

By experiment 1 have discovered th at a very tough sheetgelatine may be wrapped about the stack of coin and folded upon the end coins of the stack, just as practiced when ordinary paper is used, and the folded ends may be fastened, glued, or stuck down, forming a coinpackage having a transparent wrapper, which shows the entire edge of each coin oi' the package as clearly and fully as though there was not a wrapper upon the coins, and the number ot' coins may be readily counted and their entire edges be readily inspected and examined.

Abankeror merchant wrapping coin as herein described in a gelatine wrapper may stamp his name upon the wrapper as a guarantee, yet the coin may be seen and inspected as readily as it' not wrapped.l

A gelatine wrapper once applied and folded down at the ends ofthe coin-stack cannot be opened without so destroying the` wrapper that it cannot be again used. This insures that a package of coin put up by a responsible party and signed or stampedv by him cannot be tampered with or changed.

The sheet-gelatine used by me is not claimed as novel in itself. Instead of sheet-gelatine I may use any other thin transparent medium which may be folded or wrapped about the coins as described.

Figure 1 represents, in perspective, a coinpackage embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 3 one of the transparent wrappers having printed upon it the value of the package.

The coins a, placed side by side in stack or pile, are wrapped or inclosed within a wrapper or envelope, b, of transparent gelatine or other transparent tough and strong material, and the ends of the wrapper are folded down, as at c, against the end coins of the package.

I claim- In a coin-package, an inclosin g transparent envelope or cover adapted. to leave visible the entire edges of the coins composing the package, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. V. BRIGHAM.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, N. E. WHITNEY. 

